See, this is what is wrong with making comments before you know all of the facts. According to another article, the girls did not start "dating" until after the older girl had turned 18. The parents of the younger girl were notified by the girls basketball coach as soon as he/she found out about it, and the parents notified the police immediately. So this is not a case of the parents waiting until the older girl had turned 18. Instead, as soon as they learned of the sexual relationship, they involved the police.
Several articles state that they “dated” for months before the parents turned to law enforcement.
The saddest thing - besides the fact that one may be a convicted felon for the rest of her life - is that one could hope that these two girls were just experimenting. In fact, the older did date boys, previously.
What I see, however, is two young women who will become committed to lesbianism as an act of defiance. And a younger woman who will likely have NO relationship with her parents for dragging her own name through the mud (everyone in town knows who she is), and criminalizing her friend’s behavior.
Sad, sad, sad. In twenty years these two girls will be leading feminazis, because one set of parents acted out of anger instead of grace.